The Eurovision Song Contest has returned after a year of absence, and it has done so under strict security protocol and with a live audience at the Ahoy theater in Rotterdam (Netherlands).
In the stands 3,500 spectators have been able to remove the mask once seated in their town.
The final has started on time with the traditional parade of participants.
After the performance of the 26 participating countries, it is time to vote.
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This has been the performance of Blas Cantó
As on previous occasions, the voting system will be 50% votes from the professional jury of each country, 50% votes from the public from their homes.
In this way, until the last minute of the festival it will not be known who is the winner of Eurovision.
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The Eurovision Song Contest in Photos
The covid has been present first with Iceland, which has acted in a video recorded by a positive in its delegation, and then with the representative of Spain.
Blas Cantó has acted a few minutes after ten o'clock at night with his song
I'm going to stay
, dedicated to his maternal grandmother, who died in December 2020. She, the woman with whom he practically grew up replacing two teenage parents, is one of the almost 80,000 Spaniards already dead from coronavirus and the engine that moves his song.
The bookmakers place Italy, France and Malta among the favorites, followed by Ukraine and Switzerland, while Spain is predicted one of the last places.
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